Positive News Media (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
MANILA, Nov. 24 (PNA)--With no one enjoying the benefit of a course advantage, the Philippine golf team to the 25th Southeast Asian Games is hopeful about its gold medal chances in Laos, Vientiane two weeks from now.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Vientiane, Laos - Lao legislators are preparing to pass the country's first cigarette-control bill, in keeping with anti-smoking campaigns worldwide, media reports said Thursday. Minister of Public Health Ponmek Dalaloy presented a draft law at the N...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Vientiane, Laos - Laos' first HIV-testing centre has officially opened in Vientiane, allowing doctors to monitor progress of antiretroviral drug users locally instead of sending blood samples to neighbouring Thailand, media reports said Thursday. The...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Vientiane - An estimated 200,000 Lao labourers are working in neighbouring Thailand, of whom 120,000 are working there legally, state media reports said Monday. According to Skill Development and Employment Department Director General Phouvanh Chanth...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Vientiane, Laos - Land-locked Laos' gross domestic product (GDP) grew 7.6 per cent in the fiscal year that ended September 30, thanks to the government's stimulus package and a good dollop of foreign aid, state media reported Wednesday. Lao Prime Min...
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
A charity concert will be held in Vientiane, Laos this Friday to raise funds for the typhoon victims in the southern provinces of Saravane, Sekong and Attapeu.
Positive News Media (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
MANILA, Oct. 31 (PNA) – The Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) has expressed readiness to raise P5.64 million for the remaining 94 athletes who will not be covered by the P35 million which the Philippines Sports Commission has been allotted for the country's participation in the 25th Southeast Asian Games slated in December 8 to 18 in Vientiane, Laos.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Vientiane - South Korea has granted 3.5 million dollars to build Laos' first children's hospital, media reports said Wednesday. Construction of the Lao-Korean National Children's Friendship Hospital will begin this month and be completed by October 2...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Vientiane - Laos has approved foreign investments worth 4.3 billion dollars during the first nine months of this year, almost quadruple 2008's figures, state media reported Tuesday. According to data released by the Ministry of Planning and Investmen...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
Vientiane - Laos has 3,395 known cases of people infected with HIV, of whom 2,180 have developed AIDS, state media reported on Friday. Doctor Chanthone Khamsybounhuang, deputy director of the Centre for HIV/AIDS/Sexually-transmitted Infections, said ...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Vientiane - Laos and Cambodia are planning to allow cross-border bus services to operate in a bid to boost tourism and trade between the two neighbouring countries, state media reports said Thursday. Deputy Director of the Transport Department Bouaph...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
Vientiane - Thailand accounts for about 90 per cent of the human trafficking from neighbouring Laos, with girls aged 12 to 18 making up a majority of the victims, state media reported Tuesday. Leik Boonwaat, representative of the United Nations Offic...
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
Through Vientiane Daily Photos, we get to see a photo of a shop in Vientiane selling ‘house for spirits' products.
People Daily (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
The World Bank will provide Laos a two million U.S. dollar grant to help the country address poor nutrition, especially among mothers and children in central and southern provinces, the Lao newspaper Vientiane Times reported Thursday. The money will be used in the country's community nutrition project to be implemented in seven central and southern provinces of Laos. The project aims to improve maternal...
World Food Program (Free subscription) | 10/03/2009
Body Text: VIENTIANE – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is providing first emergency food assistance to communities in Sekong affected by Typhoon Ketsana. In the worst hit areas, provincial authorities are distributing eleven metric tons of rice and 3,200 cans of fish provided by WFP. Rations are designed to meet the energy and nutritional needs of over 3000 flood victims. Sekong...
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